New Yorkers are the proudest citizens, with no comparisons all over the world. Particularly, NYC represents a place to be loved without limitations, and a huge temple in the open air, where a barely religious belief in the intangibility of civil rights is enhanced and glorified. Given that I don’t want to raise hate among my readers, I’m going to write a page chiefly based on factual evidences, for catching some discussable aspects of the Big Apple, although attempting to minimize intellectual and ethical criticisms. A previous observation. Social integration in New York City is rather peculiar: while it is considered as an essential element, each ethnic group lives almost exclusively in a precise territory, openly and notoriously assigned to the specific ethnicity. With other words, there’s a system of ghetto-like areas, where a complete melting among races is not a target, and a complete integration is practically forbidden, especially for Latinos. Of course, the focus of the page is equal to the topic of the blog, disco music. It means that I’m going to talk about the nightclubs sector.
Well, disco music is born in NYC, in the years from 1965 to 1970. Discotheques have been conceived as places for putting into practice LGBTQ rights, and for hosting the believers in the salvific powers of psychedelic experience, at the price of tolerating the businesses of local mobsters. Music and lights have been the unifying factors, due to excellence in sound reproduction and in lights systems, and to new musical genres, generically defined “disco music”. Those new sounds have been studied for substituting the old bands playing live at clubs, for communicating collective messages, and for liberating the desired social activities, instincts, and impulses. In places different from NYC, disco music has been ostracized in the early 80’s, at first in favor of “European disco” (chiefly from Italy, UK, Germany, and France), and later in favor of house music, developed thanks to some Chicago DJs, and pioneered by DJ Ron Hardy. Differently, in NYC disco music is never dead, and there’s a total continuity among disco music, hip-hop, new wave, electronic dance music, and house music. More clearly, local tunes have always been conceived for the LGBTQ community, and for the followers of a psychedelic kind of religion, whose prophet was Dr. Timothy Leary, in similarity to the scientific irrationalism of the Churches of Scientology and of Satan. A first conclusion, the essence of NYC nightlife at clubs has never changed, from 1970 to now. What’s the most notable consequence? The one summarized in the title of the page. I have made an analogue query to Google, whose Artificial Intelligence has answered that my affirmation is exaggerated, and unfounded.
Despite of the response of the digital oracle, sadly, my affirmation is confirmed by solid factual evidences, taken from the official statistics of the NYC Administration. You can easily verify and deepen the following observations, that I’m forced to brutally summarize. From the early 80’s to now, in NYC there are about 1000 deaths per year from HIV/AIDS, and about 3000 deaths per year from drugs overdose. The official sources also confirm that a large percentage of the 4000 deaths is strictly bound to a habitual frequentation of nightclubs, especially for the social group of gay men. It’s true that at NYC nightclubs there’s not a war going on, but the official statistics of the above show something recalling the effects of armed conflicts.
The conclusion doesn’t make me neither happy, nor gay. In NYC, disco music is like a silent war, with a masochist and crazy content. The mix of the page allows you to listen to some horses of battles of the most prominent NYC DJs, without taking unwanted risks.
File name is “tunes from the deadliest nightclubs, by Max Look DJ (June 2025)”, 1 hour 20’ and 30” of peculiar tracks, big at some of the most popular NYC nightclubs.
Big in NYC, the playlist:
Intro: Mobb Deep – the infamous prelude (1995)
Onyx feat. Cormega & Papoose – the tunnel (2014)
Jayo Felony – whatcha gonna do? (1998)
Queen Pen – party ain’t a party (1997)
DMX – get me a dog (1998)
Tricky Tee – Johnny the fox (1985)
Mantronix – bassline (club mix, 1985)
Cash Money & Marvelous – the mighty hard rocker (1988)
Sounds of JHS 126 Brooklyn – chill pill (original 12”, 1983)
Joyce Sims – (you are my) all & all (1987)
Kriss Coleman – shine 12” (1990)
Shannon – give me tonight 12” (1984)
Dinosaur L – clean on your bean #1 (François K mix, 1982)
Nocera – let’s go (dub) (1987)
Johnny Dynell – jam hot (Tensnake remix, 2010)
Blaze presents James Toney Jr. Project – elevation (Shelter vocal, 2001)
Afrimerican Coalition – no more weeping (Victor Simonelli mix, 2009)
